How can the wicked live for eternity in hell when they are completely separated from the only source of eternal life?

There are some who believe that the "Second Death" in Revelation is not literal, but figurative of eternal separation from God in hell. >Revelation 20:14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. **This is the second death, the lake of fire**. >Revelation 21:8 But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, **which is the second death**.” For those that do not believe that the Second Death is eternal death/destruction, and instead believe that it symbolizes **eternal conscious separation** from God, particularly one that leads to being tormented in hell for eternity, how do you reconcile this with the fact that God is the only source of life? >Genesis 3:22-23 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, **lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever**...” **Therefore** the LORD God **banished him from the Garden of Eden** to work the ground from which he had been taken. God knew that if the humans ate from the tree of life they would live forever; He did not want that to happen. Hence why He took necessary action to ensure that they would **NOT** live forever. Said action was to banish the humans from the Garden of Eden, henceforth preventing them from eating of the tree of life and living forever. Essentially, humans are not, by virtue of being human, capable of living forever; if we were, then it would not have mattered if God banished them from Eden. But He did. They were officially and irrevocably separated from the tree of life; this **directly corresponds** to them being mortal and dying. All God had to do was separate them from the tree of life to guarantee their ultimate death. >John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection **and the life**. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, >John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, **and the life**; no one comes to the Father except through Me. Assuming that by "the life" Jesus meant eternal life(life that never ends), Jesus is saying that He is eternal life, i.e. that one can only attain eternal life(life that never ends) through Him. It follows then that if someone is permanently separated from Him *who is* eternal life, they cannot have eternal life(you cannot have something while also being separated from it). >John 6:63 It is **the Spirit who gives life**; **the flesh is no help at all**. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. Jesus makes it here as unequivocal as possible. It is God's Spirit that gives eternal life. Being permanently separated from God means being permanently separated from His Spirit. How, then, can those permanently separated from God(and His Spirit) live forever to be tormented in hell? Perhaps most unambiguously; >1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. **He is the true God and eternal life**. It is incontrovertible; God is eternal life. Ultimate and permanent separation from God directly corresponds to ultimate and permanent separation from eternal life, i.e. it is impossible for one to live forever if completely separated from the **sole means** of living forever. It's **logically inconsistent** to say that the wicked burn eternally alive in hell while also permanently separated from the only means of eternal life(i.e. God); you can't simultaneously have something and be separated from it(just as Adam and Eve could not eat from the tree of life while also separated from the Garden of Eden[which contains the tree of life]). But perhaps I am completely missing something. Hence my question... - How can the wicked live for eternity in hell while simultaneously being permanently separated from God, the only source of eternal life?